Minimize
Toxins

Minimizing Toxin Exposure

Minimizing exposure and clearing the toxins from your body resets your body’s natural balance and
allows it to function at its fullest potential. This starts with guidance on the lifestyle choices
needed to reduce the toxins entering your system. We’ll also provide you with the dietary
guidelines, supplements, and care needed to boost your body’s own inherent cleansing powers,
allowing you to detox and thrive.

Support the Body’s Natural Ability to Detoxify

Detoxification is both the body’s first and last line of defense against dangerous toxins
that we come into contact with daily. The 5 Essentials drive detoxification by helping the
body remove toxins that are already present in the body, while also promoting new lifestyle
habits that can reduce exposure in the future. While we can’t completely control our
environment, being aware of what we encounter and modifying how and what we consume can
greatly reduce exposure. MaxLiving believes that optimal health depends on resetting your
body back to its natural balance – helping it detoxify itself is vitally important.

Our three-step plan drives detoxification in two important ways, working at the cellular and
organ level. While many detox plans focus on organs like the colon, many of the most harmful
toxins accumulate at the cellular level and must be effectively cleared to avoid long-term
damage.

Minimize exposure

Detoxify your cells and organs

Remove toxins and prevent retoxification

How to Reduce Your Toxic Exposure

Harmful chemicals surround us every day in our lives — they’re included in
products like household cleaners, refined foods, personal care products, and the items we cook with.
Each of these toxins affect our bodies in a different way. Ultimately, they combine to inhibit us
from functioning at optimal levels, threaten our daily health, and can even reduce life longevity.

Benefits

MaxLiving and the 5 Essentials™ can help give your body what it needs to remove toxins on a
cellular level and better defend itself. Our approach helps you reduce exposure, gives your
body what it needs to detox, and then arms your systems to avoid retoxification going
forward. We want to help you think more about what you choose to consume and use.

Reducing Toxin Exposure

Plastics

Ingesting plastics can damage hormone receptors, hurt sex drive, cause fatigue, and lead to illness and diseases. Many also contain bisphenol A (BPA),
which has become illegal in some countries. Phthalate and styrene chemicals leach more
aggressively into foods and liquids when heated. We can reduce our exposure to these chemicals
in a few ways:

Avoid PVC and Styrene products

Choose glass containers to store food

Avoid polycarbonate drinking bottles with Bisphenol A

Don’t heat food in plastic containers

Avoid drinking hot beverages from styrofoam cups

Don’t provide children with plastic teethers

When possible, opt for natural fiber clothing, bedding, and furniture

Environmental Toxins

Environmental endocrine disruptors (EEDs) are toxins that imitate hormones. By blocking
or altering hormone functions, they may contribute to an increase in hormone-related
cancers, such as those of the breasts, testicles, and the prostate. Endocrine disruptors
can be found everywhere in chemicals like phthalates, dioxins, polystyrene and
trichloroethylene. Endocrine disruptors are found in supplies many of us use frequently,
including household cleaning supplies, garage maintenance supplies, and pesticides. There are a
few ways we can reduce our exposure to EEDs:

Wash your hands frequently, avoiding antibacterial soap

Dust and vacuum your home often

Avoid artificially fragranced products

Choose fresh foods over canned foods

Opt for organic food products when possible

Filter your tap water

Buy or make natural cleaning products

Food Additives

A food additive is any substance that is added to food in order to preserve it, maintain its
quality, or make it more appealing. About 80% of
packaged foods sold in the United States contain chemicals that are outlawed in other
countries. To limit your consumption of food additives: